Abstract
Revolution 2.0 concludes with some final observations about how the Egyptian youth movements, led by cyberactivists and citizen journalists, mobilized massive demonstrations in early 2011 that attracted millions of people to the streets and overthrew two decades of authoritarian rule. Radsch analyses how the government tried to stave off the protests by shutting down the Internet and mobile phone networks and keeping the stock market offline for more than a month, but to no avail. Tying together the threads from previous chapters, Radsch explains how the groundwork laid by cyberactivists over the previous years came to fruition in early 2011, less than a decade after the information revolution came to Egypt, when the country’s youth successfully mobilized the overthrow of the state and its president. Radsch also suggests how the analytical framework developed here can be used to understand how social movements use social media and the impact of new media technologies on politics, and why, perhaps, consolidation of their gains remains elusive.
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Radsch, C.C. (2016). Conclusion: Revolution 2.0. In: Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt. Information Technology and Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48069-9_7
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